JACOBS, DEATH AND LIFE

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JACOBS, DEATH AND LIFE
Chapter 1 Where do city planners go wrong?
Decide what you consider Jacobs's most important
points and summarize them, if possible in a
couple of sentences. Chapter 2 What does it
take to make streets safe? Summarize Jacobs's
most important points. Illustrate your summary
with a local example. Chapter 3 What does
Jacobs mean by "balance between people's
determination to have essential privacy and...
wishes for differing degrees of contact"? What
does this have to do with the viability of city
neighbourhoods?
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JACOBS, DEATH AND LIFE
Chapter 5 What does Jacobs mean when she says a
park is "the creature of its surroundings...? Cha
pter 5 What are demand goods? (Note that Jacobs
is distinguishing between two kinds of parks, and
demand goods are of prime importance in only one
of them.) Chapter 5 Analyse a Winnipeg park of
your choice using Jacobs's criteria. Chapter 7-8
What are "primary uses"? What is "secondary
diversity"? Give a Winnipeg example of each.
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CITY POLITICS (POL-2500/3)

• Christopher Leo
• christopher.leo_at_shaw.ca
• http//blog.uwinnipeg.ca/ChristopherLeo/

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PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS

• Joint project
• Government and a company
• Example Water park
• Another example Charleswood Bridge
• Judge the case-by-case

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On large-scale planned developments
"To house people in this planned fashion, price
tags are fastened on the population, and each
sorted-out chunk of price-tagged populace lives
in growing suspicion and tension against the
surrounding city."
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IDENTIFYING THE MAIN POINTS JACOBS, CH 2

• What makes a street safe?
• What brings about eyes on the street, and why?
• How important are well-lit streets?
• What happens when we build unsafe cities?

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WHAT MAKES A STREET SAFE?

• Clear demarcation public an private space
• Eyes on the street
• A steady stream of pedestrians

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STREET-LEVEL PUBLIC PLACES AND EYES ON THE STREET

• They are reasons to be on the street
• They draw traffic past empty places
• Proprietors want public order
• People attract people

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TERMS AND CONCEPTS

• Government policy
• Ideology
• Strong government
• Weak government
• Liberals, the left and the right

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WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DONT HAVE SAFE STREETS?

• The law of the jungle
• Take refuge in vehicles
• Turf

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MORE TERMS

• Downtown core
• Inner city
• Suburbs
• Urban
• Rural fundamentalism